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Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress

GreenBiz

Chouinard and his coauthors highlighted the many efforts to dollarize ecosystem services (including efforts by The Nature Conservancy plus PwC, the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, The World Bank and Puma/Kering plus Trucost and their environmental profit and loss, or EP&L).

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Take Five: Immediately and Gradually

Chris Hall

Ahead of next week’s IMF and World Bank annual meetings, ex-White House advisor Lawrence Summers called for a “reinvented” World Bank that would prioritise sustainability, supporting global public goods such as climate adaptation , partly via expanded partnership with the private sector.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

MH: Choosing among responsible investment tools – positive and negative screening, divestment and engagement – is complicated. Early in our history, we were so unwelcome that on one occasion a bank chairman turned off the microphone at the bank’s annual meeting so that a church representative couldn’t ask a question. .

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: NatureAlpha Joins UN Biodiversity Data Initiative

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NatureAlpha, Verdantix, Solactive, Minerva Analytics, Euronext, Joulea, and Clarity AI. index looks to respond to the growing demand for sustainable investment tools. billion on carbon management software.

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This Week’s Fund News: DWS Launches ESG Fund for Women, by Women

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including DWS, T. The ESG Women for Women fund is managed exclusively by women, investing in companies that have strong social values and fair working conditions for women. “The

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Goldman Sachs ‘s and Deutsche Bank’s DWS) for exaggerating claims about their products’ sustainability credentials. Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2

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Report: Meet the top 200 companies investing in a clean energy future

Corporate Knights

Larry Fink, the CEO of the largest investment firm in the world, wrote in his 2022 letter to CEOs: “It’s been two years since I wrote that climate risk is investment risk. Sustainable investments have now reached $4 trillion. The Clean200 uses negative screens. Clean 200 Negative Screens Criteria # Excluded.

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